As part of an ongoing initiative to strengthen our ties with alumni in helping professions with the help of funding from RBC Foundation, the BVCAA has been taking nominations from supervisors, clients and co-workers of BVC Alumni who are working as LPNs, Health Care Aides, Education Assistants, Early Learning and Child Care workers or Personal Care Attendants. On Thursday, June 17 the BVCAA awarded Amanda LeClaire (Practical Nurse program, 2003) with the first official BVCAA and RBC Foundation sponsored Reward of Recognition and Rejuvenation.The following letter was submitted on Amanda's behalf by her co-worker, Marie Boczkowski, at Lethbridge Community Care. It speaks to the good work being done in the community by Bow Valley College Alumni.
I would like to tell you about an awesome person that I work with, her name is Amanda LeClaire. I work with Amanda is Community Care in Lethbridge. She goes the extra mile and is the sweetest, smartest, most caring LPN. She always has a kind word and helping hands for whoever needs them.
She recently had the opportunity to care for an elderly man who had undergone treatment for cancer, this gentleman had a difficult time talking after he returned home and had a tube feed. Amanda would spend extra time assisting him and caring for the tube dressing; she would give him the attention he required to allow him to let her know what he needed, even when he just wanted to tell her about himself and his life. Amanda would place calls to Calgary to arrange for dressing supplies and tube feeds and make calls to arrange his follow-up appointments.
This client thinks she is the best. I did not have the opportunity to ask him if I could add his name to this nomination letter, but I know that he would not have hesitated in letting me do so. This gentleman no longer has his tube feed and is doing quite well, I know that he looked forward to Amanda's home visits and will miss her.
Amanda is a credit to the LPN profession and she will do great things during the course of her career. I am priveleged to be able to work with her.
Amanda graduated from the Bow Valley College Practical Nurse program which was brokered to Lethbridge College in 2003.
Sincerely, Marie Boczkowski
Marie (left) and Amanda (right) are show above at the celebration for Amanda on June 17 at Lethbridge Community Care - Lethbridge Centre location
The staff at Lethbridge Community Care celebrated the award alongside Amanda by gathering for the presentation (and delicious Crave cupcakes) and presenting her with a card signed by everyone in the office. Alberta Health Services also had members of their communications team out to write an article on Amanda and her work as an LPN in the Lethbridge community.
Nominations for the Rewards of Recognition and Rejuvenation program will be accepted on an ongoing basis. If you have an employee, co-worker or are a client of an exemplary BVC Alumnus working in a helping profession please contact the BVCAA at alumni@bowvalleycollege.ca
